Wilson and Rise of American Power

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Wilson and Rise of American Power

• Surrounded by talented cabinet officers
• His image
• Firmly in charge of his party
• Faithful to the people

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Background

• Born Thomas Woodrow Wilson -- December 28, 1856,
  in Staunton, Virginia
  
• University Professor
• President NJ College (Princeton)
• Gov. NJ 1910
• Wins Presidential election 1912.
• Serves two terms

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• Underwood-Simmons Tariff (1913)
• Sixteenth Amendment (1913)
• Right of government to impose income tax
• Federal Reserve Act
• Established 12 regional banks, controlled by
  private banks in the region
  
• All private banks required to deposit average 6
  of assets in the regional Federal Reserve bank
  
• Reserve was used to make loans to member banks
  and issue paper currency
  
• Shore up member banks in distress

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• Federal Trade Commission Act (1914)
• Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
• Clayton Anti-trust Act
• Allows discrimination in some federal offices
• Kern-McGillicuddy Act (1916)
• Keating-Owen Act (1916)
• Adamson Act (1916)
• Wilson transforms nations reform impulse and
  agenda to Democrats
  

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Progressivism

• Progressives accomplishments
• American concerns with liberty and democracy
  could be adapted to an industrialized age
  
• Suffragism
• Environmental protection
• Transformation of the Presidency
• Accompanying Dangers bureaucratic elite

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U.S. Becomes World Power

• Protestant Missionaries
• Businessmen
• Imperialists

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Christian Missionaries

• Focused mainly on China
• Christian duty
• Civilizing

W. H. Hunt, A Converted British Family sheltering
a Christian Priest from the Persecution of the
Druids.
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Business

• Exports of American manufactured goods rise after
  1880
  
• American tobacco sold 1 billion cigarettes to
  China
  
• Frederick Jackson Turner
• The Significance of the Frontier in American
  History"
  

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Imperialism

• U.S. should be imperial nation like Britain,
  France, Germany, and Russia
  
• Alfred Thayer Mahan
• The Influence of Sea Power Upon History (1890)
• Big navy policy
• Pago Pago, Samoa and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
• Hawaii
• Queen Liliuokalani
• Jingoism
• War and imperialism attempt to revive frontier
  like masculinity
  

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Spanish-American War

• Yellow Journalism
• Maine
• Teller Amendment
• U.S. Naval superiority
• Treaty of Paris, 1898
• U.S. gets Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines
• U.S. pays 20 million

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Foreign Policy

• The Roosevelt Corollary
• Taft Dollar Diplomacy
• Wilson Missionary Diplomacy

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Wilson

• Wilson intervened in Caribbean more than any
  President before
  
• Haiti and Dominican Republic
• Wilson more concerned with morality and justice
  than Taft or Roosevelt
  
• Mexican Revolution Wilson hopes for democracy

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The Great War and American Neutrality

• Wilsonneither threatened vital American
  interest
  
• Edward M. House and Robert Lansing
• Wilsons pro-British advisors
• William Jennings Bryan
• Against pro-British tilt
• Germany had no advocates in government
• British blockade of Germany
• Violates American neutrality, Wilson protests

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